Vegan Banana and Passionfruit Cake – this would make a fantastic celebration cake! The texture is perfect. Again I used the apple sauce combination as an egg replacer and it worked a treat. It’s quite sweet with the frosting so just adjust to your taste. You could leave the sugar out of the cake recipe as the bananas provide their own sweetness.
“I eat cake because it’s somebodies birthday somewhere.”
Banana & Passionfruit Cake
Serves 8-10
Ingredients
Cake
3 or 4 ripe bananas (the riper the better) – mash them
1/2 cup melted vegan butter / spread
1/4 cup sugar (or leave out all together)
1 apple made into apple sauce (peel and cut apple into small pieces, boil in 1/2 cup water and dash of lemon juice until soft)
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 and 1/2 cups of self raising unbleached flour
1/4 cup almond milk
Frosting
1 tablespoon vegan butter
1 tablespoon almond milk
1/2 cup icing sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
What do I do now?
Preheat oven to 170 degrees celsius.
Combine the vegan butter and the bananas together, then add the sugar, apple sauce, almond milk, vanilla essence and finally the flour.
Don’t mix this to death – just fold everything in and then put in the cake tin – smooth the top and bake for about 50 – 55 minutes.
For the frosting just combine all ingredients in a bowl and mix until smooth – add more of whichever element you need to get the desired consistency – some people like a very runny frosting that they can drizzle over the cake and others like a thicker frosting like the one I made.
What else should I know?
Allow this to cool completely before frosting. It is very sweet with the frosting so you can just sprinkle with icing sugar or put less frosting on the cake if you don’t like it sweet.
You could slice this and freeze for later. I have done it and it tastes just as good.
This will last a couple of days in the fridge.
Curious, where exactly is the application of the passionfruit used in this. Because i reread it twice, but dont see any mention of it in ingredients or directions. The picture suggests it as a drizzled accompaniment. Maybe im missing something.
Hi Edward, You are correct – it is drizzled on top but could absolutely be added to the cake batter also. You are not missing a thing!